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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
Chapter 129
COUNTY ANNUAL BUDGET
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129.07 Unlawful to exceed the budget.The board of county commissioners may not expend or enter into a contract requiring expenditures in any fiscal year for more than the amount of appropriations in each fund’s budget, except as provided herein, and the total appropriations of any budget may not be exceeded, except as provided in s. 129.06. Any indebtedness contracted for any purpose against either of the funds enumerated in this chapter or for any purpose, which is chargeable to either of the funds, is null and void, and no suit may be prosecuted in any court in this state for the collection of such indebtedness. The members of the board of county commissioners voting and contracting for such indebtedness are liable for any excess indebtedness contracted for.
History.s. 7, ch. 6814, 1915; RGS 1530; CGL 2308; s. 6, ch. 26874, 1951; s. 3, ch. 78-157; s. 9, ch. 2011-144.

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Cases Citing Statute 129.07

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Metro. Dade Cnty. v. Maddox, 242 So. 2d 165 (Fla. 3d DCA 1970).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...Plaintiffs challenge this finding in their cross assignments only because it failed to include all full time salaried employees of Dade County in the class. The first point raised and argued by the County is stated by it as: "The county is immune from suit for non appropriated wages in view of section 129.07, Florida Statutes, or otherwise: therefore, the trial court did not have jurisdiction to order an accounting for accrued overtime wages." Plaintiffs contend that § 129.07, Fla. Stat. F.S.A., was not properly raised in the answer or pleadings of Dade County and should not be considered for the first time in this appeal. It appears that the trial judge did consider the possible effect of § 129.07, Fla....
...ssession of the County, if any, might be applied to the amounts due and owing, or what remedy might be available and sought by the Plaintiffs for the collection of the amount due them." The argument advanced by Dade County as to the applicability of § 129.07, Fla....
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Alachua Cnty., etc. v. Clovis Watson, Jr., etc. (Fla. 2022).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...with other economic data, to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research. § 129.03(3)(d). It is unlawful for a county to exceed a budget that has been finalized this way, unless the budget is modified as provided in section 129.06, to which we will turn soon. § 129.07....

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